Roger Wheeler

Roger Wheeler (27 February 1926-27 May 1981) was an American businessman, the former chairman of Telex Communications, and former owner of World Jai Alai. He was murdered in Miami on the orders of Whitey Bulger in 1981.

Biography
Roger Wheeler was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1926, and he served as the chairman of Telex Communications before becoming the owner of World Jai Alai. As chairman, he sought to uncover an embezzlement scheme that was masterminded by Whitey Bulger, Stephen Flemmi, and John B. Callahan, asking for receipts regarding World Jai Alai's parking lot operation, which netted Bulger's Winter Hill Gang $10,000 per week. Bulger knew that Wheeler was a connected multi-millionaire, so Bulger and fellow schemer John B. Callahan decided to have him murdered before his investigation into the embezzlement scheme could implicate him.

Death
On 27 May 1981, Winter Hill hitman Johnny Martorano flew out to Tulsa, Oklahoma to assassinate Wheeler. Martorano waited in his car in the parking lot of the Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa, watching as Wheeler returned to his car with his golf gear. As Wheeler sat in the driver's seat and prepared to turn on his car, Martorano asked if he was Wheeler, and he proceeded to shoot him in the head with a pistol, instantly killing him.